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dbpedia

In dbpedia vocabulary, why is class "City" not linked with class "Country" ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.99.52.166 (talk) 04:41, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

For details about DBpedia, see http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2013/SWJ_DBpedia/public.pdf

I hope that helps. The Transhumanist 14:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Any Easter eggs on Win 3.1 | MS DOS 6.22 ?

I've got a VM running MS DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1. Are there any Easter eggs I can try out? Peter Michner (talk) 15:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

[1], [2]. Might also want to try google :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 20, 2015; 15:57 (UTC)

don't know if it counts as an easter-egg, but the old windows "solitaire" program was badly coded enough that the shuffle used the time in seconds as a seed, so if you redealt twice in the same second you'd get the same distribution. 2A01:E34:EF5E:4640:889D:27B:ACBF:4AB5 (talk) 12:33, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

See List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products#Windows. The Transhumanist 13:54, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Problems with spyware

I'm having problems with spyware, which make my internet connection (and my whole computer) really slow. Let's just say that, when I simply open the browser (and just load google, the main page) I see a huge activity in the status bar, calling and connecting to many sites such as "determineyourroad", "offersbycontext", "eshopcomp", "everytravels", and similar garbage. I even get a crash of flash player from time to time (still in google's main page). Simply clicking in the search box also opens pop up windows. Every google search has fake results by the "ads by name" spyware at the top.

I have seen many sites that suggest what to do: uninstall any unknown programs which were recently installed, delete any unknown browser add-ons, and run a spyware detector program. However, I'm either missing something or those spywares are more insidious: all the installed software is either known or belongs to known sources (such as "Microsoft Corporation", I hope that spyware installers can not fake those sources, right?), and I have no strange add-ons. Running a spyware detector does not seem to fix much, as those things are still there. Is there some other way to fix all this? Cambalachero (talk) 22:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

A more drastic fix is to reinstall the O/S. This means you will get rid of all malware, but will also lose any customization, downloaded programs, etc. If you have a spare hard drive, you can make your current boot drive no longer the boot drive, and just use it to hold all your data, programs, etc. Since it's not the boot drive, malware on it would hopefully not be activated. The new hard drive would then get the fresh install of the O/S. StuRat (talk) 03:51, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Check your browser addons. There are many adware/PUP addons out there, and some of them piggyback install on "good" software, like the Ask toolbar with the Java installer. If they seem to reappear, a decent malware scanner, like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, should pick up the cause. 96.11.52.202 (talk) 14:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Backup all data and reinstall the OS. Check your routers settings! Software like Spybot S&D, Adaware, CCleaner and similar are not exactly the same. Spybot S&D removes and display malware, of privaciy violating settings like recent used documents and adds malware websites into hosts file to redirect them to localhost where requesting this sites should not be harmful unitl you are not running a proxy or router on this machine. Adaware removes known malware. CCleaner removes unneccessary files like caches, temporary files, inconsistent old connections and some malware. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 12:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)